Wed.Dec 09, 2020

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Squire, a barbershop tech startup, triples its valuation to $250M in latest round

TechCrunch

Squire , a startup that sells software to barbershops, has raised $59 million in a round led by Iconiq Capital. The raise is $45 million in equity capital, and $15 million in debt financing. The round comes just months after Squire closed its $34 million Series B, led by CRV. With the new financing, Squire has nearly tripled its valuation, up from $85 million in June to $250 million today.

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The future of DevOps: 21 predictions for 2021

TechBeacon

Now that DevOps has entered its second decade, the focus has expanded beyond product delivery. It's no longer just about dev and ops, but about removing the constraints between the business and its customers, with a focus on delivering not just new features and products, but also value.

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Seoul-based payment tech startup CHAI gets $60 million from Hanhwa, SoftBank Ventures Asia

TechCrunch

Demand for contactless payments and e-commerce has grown in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is good news for payment service operators, but the market is very fragmented, so adding payment options is a time-consuming process for many merchants. CHAI wants to fix this with an API that enables companies to accept over 20 payment systems.

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Low-Code To Become Commonplace in 2021

DevOps.com

A new study finds 85% of engineer leads predict low-code and no-code will soon become common New findings from an Internal-endorsed study suggest 2020’s software development challenges will undoubtedly carry into 2021. Many businesses are making immediate transitions to a digital-only economy, forcing a ton of new app development requirements. Yet, hiring top engineering talent […].

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Arthur.ai snags $15M Series A to grow machine learning monitoring tool

TechCrunch

At a time when more companies are building machine learning models, Arthur.ai wants to help by ensuring the model accuracy doesn’t begin slipping over time, thereby losing its ability to precisely measure what it was supposed to. As demand for this type of tool has increased this year, in spite of the pandemic, the startup announced a $15 million Series A today.

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HealNow raises $1.3 million to bring online payments to pharmacies

TechCrunch

As the healthtech landscape rapidly evolves another startup is making its presence known. HealNow has closed a $1.3 million round of funding from SoftBank Opportunity Fund and Redhawk VC. The company was founded by Halston Prox and Joshua Smith. Prox has worked in healthcare for more than a decade with major organizations such as Providence Health, Mount Sinai and Baylor Scott & White, mostly focused on digitizing health records and designing and implementing software for doctors, nurses, et

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The best software QA and testing conferences of 2021

TechBeacon

Software QA and testing conferences scheduled for 2020 were thrown into turmoil amid the coronavirus pandemic. Some went virtual, while others were canceled outright. And conference organizers are still trying to figure out what to do about their 2021 events.

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Career Karma raises $10M to connect students to coding bootcamps

TechCrunch

As edtech churns out more and more MasterClass copycats and coding bootcamps, it’s becoming glaringly obvious that students need better ways to navigate the crowded world of online learning. Career Karma , founded in 2018 by Ruben Harris , Artur Meyster and Timur Meyster , wants to help. The startup is bringing a pick-and-shovel play to the coding bootcamp world: instead of creating its own up-skilling curriculum, the startup empowers students to find the best bootcamps for their price point and

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How to Avoid Cloud Overspend

DevOps.com

Cloud overspend can have a major impact on a company’s bottom line. Here’s what organizations need to know Cloud technology has reached the stage of mainstream adoption across multiple industries, be it finance, health care, manufacturing or retail. According to a Research and Markets report, the global cloud computing market is expected to grow further […].

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei raises $7 million for his new venture

TechCrunch

Carl Pei, the co-founder of OnePlus who left the company two months ago , has raised $7 million from a roster of high-profile investors for his new hardware venture. The Swedish tech entrepreneur said on Wednesday he had secured $7 million in a seed financing round from friends and private investors, including Tony Fadell (principal at Future Shape and inventor of the iPod), well-known YouTuber Casey Neistat, Kevin Lin (co-founder of Twitch), Steve Huffman (chief executive of Reddit), Liam Casey

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GitHub Updates Server Platform for On-Prem IT Environs

DevOps.com

GitHub this week rolled out a series of offerings including updates to its server platform that includes a major update to the on-premises edition of the Git-based repository for source code. Scheduled to be available next week, GitHub CEO Nat Friedman noted via a pre-recorded video that opened the online GitHub Universe event that version […].

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Airbnb said to price IPO between $67 and $68

TechCrunch

The WSJ is reporting that Airbnb is expected to price its IPO at either $67 or $68 per share. The American hospitality unicorn raised its IPO price target earlier this week , from $44 to $50 to $56 to $60. While we’re still waiting for official pricing, Airbnb is worth $41 billion at its IPO price, using the upper pricing estimate and the company’s share count of 602,448,251 from its most recent S-1/A filing.

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How to Run Apache Kafka on Windows

Confluent

Is Windows your favorite development environment? Do you want to run Apache Kafka® on Windows? Thanks to the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2), now you can, and with […].

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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UK electric vehicle startup Arrival picks Charlotte for its North American headquarters

TechCrunch

Arrival , the U.K. electric vehicle startup that plans to become a publicly traded company through a merger with special purpose acquisition company CIIG Merger Corp., has picked Charlotte for its North American headquarters. The company said it will add 150 new employees to support the headquarters and invest about $3 million in office space in the South End neighborhood of Charlotte.

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Colocation: The Benefits of Cost-Effective Data Centers

Kaseya

With businesses planning and budgeting for their Information Technology (IT) needs for 2021, deciding on whether to build or expand their own data centers may come into play. One alternative to consider is colocation, which is a way to reduce the capital expense (CapEx)of owning your own data center by renting space at a third-party facility. There are significant expenses associated with a data center facility, which we’ll discuss below.

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myInterview raises $5 million for its video-based job recruitment platform

TechCrunch

Creating a resume is one of the most frustrating parts of job hunting. Though ubiquitous on social media, videos are still rare on job platforms, even though it’s difficult to capture your personality in a resume. Sydney, Australia-based myInterview wants to turn videos into an integral part of recruitment, with a platform that allows candidates to upload video responses to questions.

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Steps for Organizing a Successful Online DevOps Conference

Kovair - DevOps

All technology companies and enthusiasts should consider holding successful online events. Online event marketing is an essential strategy in today’s digital world. If you’re not.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Google quietly acquires Dataform, the UK startup helping businesses manage data warehouses

TechCrunch

Dataform, a startup in the U.K. that was building what it dubbed an “operating system” for data warehouses, has been quietly acquired by Google’s Google Cloud division. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, although I understand this is mostly an acqui-hire, albeit one where the founders — both ex-Googlers prior to founding Dataform — have done well out of.

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Instana Announces Automatic Distributed Tracing Support for Java and Go on Lambda Serverless Infrastructure

DevOps.com

Solution Operates Independent of Serverless Platform APIs, Delivering Native Tracing for Python, Node.jx, Go and Java Across the Entire Environment Chicago – December 9, 2020 – Instana, a leading provider of APM and Observability Solutions for Cloud-Native and microservice applications, today announced the availability of automated tracing for Lambda functions written in Java or […].

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WorkRamp raises $17M to ramp up its enterprise learning platform

TechCrunch

Remote learning and training have become a large priority this year for organizations looking to keep employees engaged and up to date on work practices at a time when many of them are not working in an office — and, in the case of those who have joined in 2020, may have never met any of their work colleagues in person, ever. Today one of the startups that’s built a new, more user-friendly approach to creating and provisioning those learning materials is announcing some funding as it

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Axellio and Garland Technology Partner to Mitigate Business Critical Vulnerabilities With Complete Visibility

DevOps.com

Partnership Provides Packet-Level Insights For Real-Time Data Analysis Colorado Springs, CO/New York, December 9, 2020 — Axellio, a leading innovator in high-performance network packet capture, storage, and analysis solutions, today announced a technology partnership with Garland Technology, a leading provider of network test access point (TAP), packet broker, and cloud visibility solutions.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Stuf raises $1.8M to rethink self-storage

TechCrunch

Stuf , a new startup transforming basements and other unused spaces into self-storage locations, is announcing that it has raised $1.8 million in seed funding. Co-founder and CEO Katharine Lau previously led the real estate team at co-working company Industrious. She told me that she became interested in the self-storage industry during the early months of the pandemic, after a period of spring cleaning prompted her to put some of her belongings into storage.

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O’Reilly’s top 20 live online training courses of 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

2020 has been a year of great challenges for so many, but it’s not all negative. Around the world, organizations and their workforces have risen to the occasion, recognizing the importance of expanding their knowledge, taking on new tasks, and bettering themselves both personally and professionally. With the uptick in virtual conferencing, remote work, and, for some, reentering the job market, new technology adoption was accelerated, driving the workforce to build new skills.

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China court blacklists cash-strapped apartment rental startup Danke

TechCrunch

As financial troubles escalate at Danke, China’s authorities are stepping in to hold the once-promising apartment rental and sharing company accountable. In recent weeks, landlords who did not receive payments from Danke, which functions as a sublessor, began to evict tenants. After a flurry of local reports exposing the firm’s massive debt, which is reported to be as high as $520 million , a district court in Shanghai placed Ziwutong Beijing Asset Management, the parent organization

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The Secret is… … … … Timing

The Daily WTF

Scott was new to the team, and so when a seemingly simple bug came in, he picked up the ticket. It should be an easy win, and help him get more familiar with the code base. The reported problem was that a user entered the time, and saved it. Several screens later, when that time was redisplayed, it was incorrect, off by some number of hours. Clearly, it was a small timezone issue, which should be easy to fix.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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With investors expecting a Latin American cryptocurrency boom, Mexico’s Bitso raises $62 million

TechCrunch

Six years after the launch of the Mexico-based cryptocurrency exchange and financial services platform Bitso , the company revealed it has closed on $62 million in financing to capitalize on the cryptocurrency boom investors expect to hit Latin America. . The three major cryptocurrencies are all trading up in the waning months of 2020, with Bitcoin prices nearing (or exceeding) record highs.

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What is Penetration Testing and why is it essential for your application?

Daffodil Software

A penetration test also called the pen test is a mock attack on the security system to assess potential risks and vulnerabilities. It is commonly done to boost the web application firewall (WAF).

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Dear Sophie: Can founders get visas in 2021 through DACA or other means?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Hacks for the March 2021 H-1B lottery?

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